Looking for a cool name for your business? The word of plastic is probably not on the top of your list, especially if the business has little to do with plastics, right?

But the owner of a hair salon in Beijing apparently has a special feeling for plastics. The salon is named The Plastics Center.

This article on China Daily described the salon workers as "unusual":

They have holes in their ears, rings in their noses, and they all wear shiny black silk suits and snow white kungfu shoes.

Oddly enough. What's more, the owner also has a different -- not sure it's extremely conservative or avant guard -- way of disciplining his staff.

The black suits were standing on the sidewalk, with their hands held tight behind. A man was giving a speech, in a manner that reminded me of a kungfu master trying to whip up his disciples' spirits.
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I heard a voice saying: "The First Group merits praise for good cleaning work. You gain a red flag. The Second Group, you must discipline yourself."
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And they also practice calisthenics.
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The music, all pop songs, was the same that I'd been hearing every day from the hair salon.
But the young people were doing calisthenics at least a decade old. Without any enthusiasm, their arms stretched toward passers-by, who screamed or laughed and hurried away.

You know, plastic has a very narrowly-defined meaning in Chinese. In the States, we use plastic to refer to credit cards and call orthopedic operations the plastic surgery. But the Chinese word of plastic simply means the polymer material. Next time I stop by Beijing, maybe I'll look for this salon and ask about the origin of the name.